The Cold War
An essential history of the Cold War, from the author of The Penguin History of the World. "[A] big, serious, and thoroughly intelligent stud[y] of the cold war." -New York Review of Books We think of the Cold War as a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. But in The Cold War, award-winning historian Odd Arne Westad argues that the war must be understood as a global confrontation, with roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world. The Cold War may have begun on the perimeters of Europe, but it had its deepest reverberations in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Stunning in its breadth and revelatory in its perspective, The Cold War expands our understanding of the Cold War both geographically and chronologically, and offers a new history of how today’s world was creased.
720 pages, 11 editions
English edition · First published 2017 by Hachette · ISBN 9780465093137
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Editions
11 editions
English
- The Cold War · Hachette · 2017 · ISBN 9780465093137 This page
- The Cold War: A World History · Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing · 2021 · ISBN 9781665142267
- The Cold War: A World History · Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing · 2021 · ISBN 9781665142274
- The Cold War: A World History · Basic Books · 2019 · ISBN 9781541674097
- The Cold War: A World History · Penguin Books · 2018 · ISBN 9780141979915
- The Cold War: A World History · Allen Lane · 2017 · ISBN 9780241011317
- The Cold War: A World History · HighBridge Audio · 2017 · ISBN 9781681688213
- The Cold War: A World History · Penguin Books · 2017 · ISBN 9780141979922
- The Cold War: A World History · Basic Books · 2017 · ISBN 9780465054930
- The Cold War - A World History · Basic Books · 2017 · ISBN 9781541698284
- The Cold War: A World History · Highbridge Co · ISBN 9781509465835
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